Aspect Component Learning Suggested Materials/ Resources

Activities for
Vocabulary
Development
 Ask student to  Create words cards for word charade activities.
find word  Let students create their own comics strips
substitutes. using this free online resource
associations  Let students www.makebeliefscomix.co
explain  Let students build a giant network of associated
connection and words through the Human Brain Cloud at
create word https://www.humanbraincloud.com/for free
maps.
 Students can
classify words,
or find word
opposites.
 Have students
suggest word
associations
and examples.
 Students can  You can create your own materials for
math sentence Dictogloss for sentence structure game, Word
halves and Maze to practice word order, or putting words
grammatical rearrange together to form sentences using Wordwall at
function words to form https://wordwall.net/
sentences.
 Let students  A concordancer can help you with this
find or match accessible at www.sketchengine.co.uk
collocates and
classify items (It “allows us to enter a word or phrase and
Use in a search for multiple examples of how that word
concordance. or phrase is used in everyday speech or
collocation You can writing”.)
introduce to
them how to  For data- driven language learning on the Web,
use a check on www.lextutor.ca
concordance.
 You may also check out a freeware corpus
analysis toolkit for concordancing and text
analysis and a discipline- specific corpus
creation tool at
http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

 Let students  Identify frequency and instances of a word using

Identify word Sketch Engine at www.sketchengine.co.uk
constraints.
 Check out as well Paul Nation’s published
constraints  Students can survival vocabulary list at
on use classify words http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/staff/paul-
( register, under style nation.aspx
frequency…) headings.

Learning Materials
 A Toolkit for the Teaching of Vocabulary Development in Grade 7

COMPETENCIES
(as stipulated from the Vocabulary Focus: Learning Activity Learning Materials
MATATAG Curriculum Form, Meaning, Use
Guide)
ENG7V-III-a-13.11.1:  The teacher reads
“Identify collocations Word Use the story aloud
used in a selection” entitled “Footnote to
Youth” by Jose
Garcia Villaand
students write down
the collocations
used. After listening
twice, students
reconstruct the
story in pairs. Then
the teacher gives
students the
original story with
part of the
collocation missing.

 Students show the

most common
collocations starting
with those they
found in the story in
an infographic
presentation.

 Students may be
directed to watch
videos about
collocations and
when to use them.
TOOLKIT